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These days, you have to be very careful with words when planning a non-sponsored event. You have to use the term "meeting up" just for starters.
But you can't beat the system no matter how hard you try. Anyone with any kind of a name on GFY does not expect to pay a dime, anywhere. But many sponsors are just as guilty of fueling the fire, I have done "personal" business with a number of people; however, when they have a dinner, I will be damned if I make the list which is fine (I was certainly never huge) but look around and every time the usual poster crowd will be there.
Weg gets left off dinner list all the time, and Weg is actually huge.
I know I sound like a jerk for saying it, but it is the truth. The same people get invited to the same dinners every year and usually between 9 or 10 of them, they couldn't make you a buck panhandling the Vegas strip for 8 hours. All they must get out of it is a post on GFY with pictures. But hey, to each their own. Eric, you are right about this industry being a lot different....I am still very maladjusted.
Believe it or not, whenever I have a Weg dinner, ONLY affiliates go. Also, I always try to send out a mail list or make a post to illicit responses from our affiliates. I leave my friends off those dinner list.
When out buying drinks, you have to at least be able to send signups. Or something. There at least has to be the potential for business.
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